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  2. Biography - Wikipedia

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    The information can come from "oral history, personal narrative, biography and autobiography" or "diaries, letters, memoranda and other materials". [25] The central aim of biographical research is to produce rich descriptions of persons or "conceptualise structural types of actions", which means to "understand the action logics or how persons ...

  3. Biography in literature - Wikipedia

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    Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [7] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 8 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...

  4. Author page - Wikipedia

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    In book design, the author page is a section of a book or other literary work that consists of a short—usually a single page long—biography of the author, sometimes accompanied by a photograph of them. Written in the third-person narrative, this page is usually entitled "about the author", resulting in the synonymous name "about the author ...

  5. Biographical criticism - Wikipedia

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    Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [2] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 3 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...

  6. Portal:Biography - Wikipedia

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    Maria Eliza Rundell (née Ketelby; 1745 – 16 December 1828) was an English writer.Little is known about most of her life, but in 1805, when she was over 60, she sent an unedited collection of recipes and household advice to John Murray, of whose family—owners of the John Murray publishing house—she was a friend.

  7. Wikipedia : Biographies of living persons

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    Example: "John Doe had a messy divorce from Jane Doe." Is the divorce important to the article, and was it published by third-party reliable sources? If not, leave it out. If so, avoid use of "messy" and stick to the facts: "John Doe and Jane Doe divorced." Example: A politician is alleged to have had an affair. It is denied, but multiple major ...

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  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    For example, a name beginning with two letters representing a single sound is treated as a single two-character initial in some European languages (e.g., Th. for Theophilus), and hyphenated given names are sometimes abbreviated with the hyphen (J.-P. for Jean-Pierre). If reliable sources consistently use such a form for a particular person, use ...